Job Title: Senior Program & Strategy Manager, Consumer Eyecare

Location: Birmingham, UK
Division: Consumer Markets
Reports to: Head of Global Business & Operations, Consumer Eyecare
Contract: Permanent, Full-time (Hybrid - 3 days per week in Birmingham office)

The Senior Program & Strategy Manager, Consumer Eyecare

Purpose of this role

The Senior Program and Strategy Manager, Consumer Eyecare combines rigorous program governance with strategic business development. This individual...

• Owns end-to-end program governance and the integrated timeline and critical path to deliver Consumer Eyecare launch readiness across regions (Global/US/China) and workstreams, ensuring disciplined execution on the critical path
• Enables timely decision-making through stage-gate readiness, clear escalation, robust reporting, and strategic recommendations grounded in evidence
• Aligns internal functions and external partners to deliver on time, within budget, and in full compliance with regulatory and quality requirements
• Shapes the future direction of Consumer Eyecare by contributing to long-term strategy development

80% focus: Program governance & execution

• Own the integrated timeline: Build and maintain the timeline and critical path; ensure consistency/quality of workstream plans; manage dependencies and the critical path
• Run program governance end-to-end: SteerCos, weekly/bi-weekly cadences, workstream reviews, risk reviews; standardized agendas, pre-reads, minutes, action tracking, and follow-ups
• Drive cross-functional and cross-regional alignment: Align functions and teams, proactively resolve blockers, accelerate decisions
• Institutionalize RAID management and mitigation tracking: ensure risks/issues are surfaced early, owned, and actively closed
• Drive stage-gate readiness: Orchestrate gate deliverables, coordinate cross-functional inputs, and ensure timely delivery & decisions
• Manage external partners and timelines (e.g., contract manufacturers): Together with Procurement, manage and track delivery, cost, and timing of external partners
• Support financial steering: Track cost center spends vs. plan, support forecasting, and quantify execution impacts (delay cost, scope changes)
• Lead quarterly OKR planning and review cycles across functions and regions: Ensure measurable outcomes, accountability, and transparent progress reporting
• Institutionalize ways of working: Templates, standards, routines, playbooks, and lessons learned to scale the Consumer Eyecare PMO